Friday, August 08, 2008

Americans United for the Separation of Sports and State...

...protest Bush's Olympics-related visit to China. Our country must never--repeat, never--give so much as the impression of formally endorsing athletics. Otherwise, we're a few short steps away from becoming a sportsocracy.

Assuming we're not there already.

What's next? Presidents tossing baseballs? Politicians employing sports metaphors? Let's stop this before it gets out of hand. Join AU today. Our apologies to the African Union for borrowing their acronym....





















"Ahhh... sports and business--a marriage made in Heaven!"--G.W.B.

Lee

3 comments:

Ernie said...

If you like that picture, you should seek out the pics of Bush with the US Women's Volleyball team. I guess it pays to be the Commander In Chief. Err, I mean The Decider.

Anonymous said...

Anyone who whines about heads of state attending Olympics needs to read their history books. It's not exactly a recent development.

This year alone, many of them were in China. Even the President of Switzerland was there. 80 heads of state as a matter of fact:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080806/375/tsp-factbox-world-leaders-to-attend-olym.html

TheMadBlonde said...

Particularly if he's caught splay-leggedly checking his watch in boredom every time the camera pans over to him.